Chapter 70: I Will Lose her, but at Least she Will be Happy...

(*Ria’s POV*)

I tried to be the villain, I really did. Even with Yona, who won’t even remember this conversation. I tried to make her hate me, as her feeling from this moment will still exist. Instead, she was clearly worried that Celia would hate me for this.

That was just the kind of family that Celia cultivated, after all. This is… thousands of years from my time. Seeing Celia so young, I assumed that I wouldn’t fall for her. That I would be able to hurt her in the short-term, so that I could save her.

Regardless of what I did, or continue to do, Celia forgives me for it. None of us deserves Celia. Such an amazing soul. Even with her being so young in this time, I was already captivated by her again. Which made what I had to do all the more harder and harder…

I can’t predict the future, but my memories did change from time to time. That war killed everyone. Celia lost her entire family. All except me. But I wasn’t enough…

No matter how many years I tried, she would never return to me. Celia was just a lifeless doll at that point. I became a Creator to save her, but even that wasn’t enough. Doing something that I still regret, I killed God, and took over Heaven.

With God’s power in hand, I was able to wake Celia up from her doll-like sleep. And what was it that she said to me once she finally woke up after a hundred years? I remember it as clear as day. It is seared into my mind. No. It is seared into my very soul…

Celia: “Ah, Ria… I have a request…” She said with a forced smile.

Ria: “Anything, Celia.” I say with a smile.

Celia: “Please… kill me. I can’t go on with them…” She said with tears following down her face.

At that time, Celia wasn’t even a Supreme Goddess. As such, it wasn’t an issue at all for me to kill her. Even with her being immortal, that is. I’ve already broken one taboo and killed God. What will breaking one more matter?

With that, once I laid my Celia to rest, I went back in time as far as I could. I killed my emotions. We were a virus that eventually led to Celia’s mind being broken. Thousands of years were spent in happiness with her. Happiness that neither of us ever deserved.

If I told the rest of the family what happened, they would surely agree. Even my past self would. The happiness we gained was at the cost of Celia’s happiness. We lived this happiness already; it was time to stop being selfish and let Celia live as she wants.

Or, at least, that was what I thought before returning to this time. Now, I gained fragmented memories of a changed future. Yona was… alive now. But not even she was enough to save Celia.

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Celia still asked us to kill her. The only difference… was that Yona agreed with my plan to go back in time. But why did Yona live this time? I have no idea at all. What was it that changed? That’s why I had to erase Yona’s memories of this night.

Something here happens that allows her to live in the future. Surviving that war, for some reason. The only reason why the rest weren’t save… Well, it might be because they’re all frozen in time, in the dimension that I put them in.

Once I unfreeze their time, surely more things in the future will change. After all, once I sent Celia to this dimension and unfroze it, the future changed. Yona had already fallen asleep. Once I was sure that her memories were properly erased, I used sleeping magic on her.

In an instant, I was now standing at Celia’s bedside. I never knew that Yona had romantic feelings for Celia… She hid that very well. Not once in my timeline did she ever admit these feelings to anyone. She performed her duties as Celia’s mother very well. Yona is the monster that she thinks that she is. After all, who wouldn’t fall for Celia?

Celia’s life is very entertaining. Well, this life is, for that matter. Originally, her progress was incredibly slow. For her entire life, until the day I had to kill her, she stayed in that dimension of hers. Celia’s world was very small in my timeline.

So silly… She actually guessed who I was so fast. Like nothing could escape her eyes when it came to her family. I played it off well, and she seemed to believe me. After all, could I, Ria, ever do such cruel things?

Her trust in me was what allowed me to hide my true identity from her. When that “skill” showed up on her Status, I was so afraid… Would she figure it out? Was there some being even higher than me that was disregarding my efforts?

The Upgrade was called, “Regressors Knowledge.”… Quickly, before it could do anything, I corrupted it. Now it was displayed as a question mark, and it had no effect on Celia at all. It was so funny… And it hurt so much… Why wouldn’t she tell us? Why wouldn’t she tell me?…

Celia didn’t want death, she needed someone powerful enough to kill her so that she could go back. Where did she even get the means to attempt such a thing? Only God could do time travel, and Celia didn’t meet her in my timeline.

But that doesn’t matter. The first thing that Celia did when she regained her mind; was that she wanted to go save her family. That’s what makes it hurt even more. We all wormed our way into her life, to the point where she would willingly regress, lose all her power, just so that she could attempt to save us all.

That realization just makes me more and more unsure if my method was correct. I mean, so far, Yona survived. So it might be a correct method, in a certain sense. But… if Celia regained her memories of the original timeline, she would be even more powerful than she is now.

Clearly, sticking to one dimension greatly limited her progress. Even without knowledge of the future, she got this much further. Celia has met so many new people. Most of them she helped or saved.

An Administrator of a Hell, and even God all owe her favors now. The Devil might owe her as well. Calling on these favors for the war will surely make the casualties go down a lot. But it won’t be enough to save everyone.

Besides, they will all be thrown into similar games that I am making Celia go through. This will prime her to win more advantages in the war. Of course, if Celia keeps the family together, then I will do everything in my power to push the odds in her favor.

I am most likely marked as a major rule breaker, after all. It won’t be long until the will of existence comes to erase me. If Celia isn’t guaranteed to be happy at the point when it does, then I will fight it with all my might.

But that is something that will unfold far into the future. Nothing that Celia will have to worry about at the moment. Looking at the sleeping Celia, she was still so cute. Bending over, I gave her a kiss on her forehead. Silly girl… Once again, you forsook your life for your family, and you regressed back in time. How could one girl be so damn amazing and loving? Celia, you still defy reason itself…